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Sides of this Letter Box are:
TOMRXLEHPVAK
The answers are:
VERKLEMPTTHORAX
OA.
VERKLEMPT / THORAX Took a while to see VERKLEMPT, and knew immediately it was part of the OA.
Late….but it’s over! 😥
No way today…
PLOVER REMARKET THORAX
HOVE EXTRAPOLATE EARMARK
Meh
OA, and agreed, LB likes Yiddish words too much.
VERKRAMPTE-EXHALO*
*EXHALO good in Wiktionary
VERKRAMPTE-EXHALOR*
*EXHALOR good in Wiktionary
VERKRAMPTE-EXHALARO*
*EXHALARO good in Wiktionary
Agree! Sick of Yiddish!
That’s way above me.
Before I discovered this page I’d have been happy with my 4! Provoke extrapolate started well but M and H floored me.
I agree, I never knew it could be done in two until I found this page.
Couldn’t get 2 today though.
PROVOKE EXHORT TRAMPLE
LETHAL LOVERPOXMARK
Gave up, ended with 4 words
Me too, JSP – 4 words. Got stuck with K, then just wanted to get it over with.
OA, but that took a while! Found THORAX long after trying VERKRAMPTE but not being able to do EXOTHERMAL (and other things!), then smacked my forehead when I saw it.
Used to teach at the Hebrew Academy ages ago, all my ex-students would be rightly laughing at me now!
yeah that answer sucks.
VERKLEMPT — THORAX SNL “Coffee Talk” to the rescue! I had never heard of verklempt before watching that skit.
Found THORAX early, but got side-tracked for almost an hour trying to get VERKRAMPTE to work. Got VERKRAMPTE — EXTRAPOLATE (left the H) and then VERKRAMPTE — EXHALE (left the O). I then went back to THORAX to use those two letters and I remembered that this game loves Yiddish, and VERKLEMPT works. Very odd mixture letters today. Am curious if there are other pairs?
Tawk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, roman, nor an empire. Discuss.
Yes. Linda Richman would be pleased I got this. But it took a ridiculous amount of time. Was banging my head against the wall because there was so little that could be done with the K. There were words containing MARK, TALK, PORK, PARK, and EVOKE but it wasn’t until I noted that KEMPT was an option that the puzzle unlocked for me. I was literally swearing at the computer once I saw VERKLEMPT. Already had THORAX on my list so it was an easy finish. But that is kind of a BS puzzle.
Volk Kempt Thorax
Example Evoker Rath
Letter Boxd sure exploits those Yiddish words – gets me every time! Got hung up on PROVOKE (since it nailed the V and K which are harder to place) and tried EXOTHERMAL* landing on a 3-word answer today PROVOKE-EXHORT-TEMPORAL woot woot!
Got the OA today in a relatively short time. Yea!
OA today too. I used to think it started with an F. When I looked at the V and the other letters though, the word came to me.
OA relatively quickly
TI: clutching your chest with emotion
Just happy that I didn’t spend a lot of time on this one. Never would have solved in 2.
Plenty of X words–exemplar, metroplex, exhale, extrapolate, etc.–but I kept seeing V and K being a problem. After eliminating the few XV and no XK possibilities, I focused on words with V and K. Amid my ramble through the VOKEs (i.e., evoke, revoke, provoke, provoker), I saw the VERK. Epiphany. Maybe because I’d spent so long on this that that’s how I’d started to feel.
I did kick myself a bit, too, because I should know by now to especially look for Yiddish loanwords, especially on stumpers, especially, especially if there’s a K, because the author of LB has a propensity for using them as the OA, even extremely obscure ones that people who aren’t Jewish are very unlikely to know, like I recall some weeks ago there was that OA that required one to know the name of a particular kosher food or dish that many on here chimed in they’d never even heard of and that wasn’t even in many of the common English dictionaries.
Verklempt, though, I knew. Mike Meyers in his Coffee Talk sketches on SNL taught that one to my generation. “Now I’m getting VERKLEMPT! …I’m sowry… Tawk amongst yerselves… I’ll give you a topic. ‘Letter Boxed,’ neither a letter, nor inside a box. Discuss!'”
“Neither a letter nor inside a box” I’m verklempt. 😂 good one! I don’t think I’d ever heard that word until Coffee Talk on SNL.
Didn’t get the answer but got a good laugh out of your Linda richman riff Benjamin
Some tries extemporal rathole telemarketer orthopedic earmarker koala earth overmarket overtalker metroplex metropole parvo revolver evolved pretext plover expat exported thorax halve temporal provoked and many others, I got definitely verklempt!
Orthoprax
Even tried latke
4 for me as well. I usually try to get 3 before coming to this page. Not today……
AXEL-LAMP-PROVOKER-RATH
HOAXER-RELATE-EVOKER-RAMP
Hove Exempt Talker
Ugh. Enough with the Yiddish. MW says first known use was 1991. That surprises me because I remember some campy talk show on TV using it in the 80s.
I settled for —
EXTRAPOLATE EVOKE EMPATH
and HOKE EXTROVERT TEMPLATE
Was hoping METROPLEX would match up.
Lol. I see above that it was from SNL. So yes 1991.
I don’t mind Yiddish on its own, btw. It is just that LB seems beholden to it, and does not accept very many other loan words from other dialects or languages. I should keep a list of common in-use words that are rejected. Like the person who has the Spelling Bee site with a list of non-accepted words (although it’s missing a few obvious ones sometimes too.)
Ezersky edits that game as well. I have never tried any Yiddish words there, but will if I see the opportunity!
Remember the time when the Bee did not accept the word COPE? People went ballistic.
How ‘bout EXEMPLAR REVOKETH?
“The king upon petition of the mayor revoketh… particular licenses granted to merchants of New Castle…” Records of the Tower of London. 1657. 😎
Oh, I definitely tried that too. Glad I solved it anyway, but only because I’m so damn stubborn and had the time today.
Provoke Exhale Empt
verklempt is a new word for me, so found 3:
armhole – expo – overtalker
3-word solve today
TAMP-PROVOKE-EXHALE
Got THORAX immediately but couldn’t do anything with it. I fooled around with MAHALO thinking that I might be able to pair that with a word that began with OVER. But I thought to myself that the solution cannot include MAHALO. That wouldn’t be fair. Only to later learn that the OA began with VERKLEMPT. Total BS!!
OA right away, because Sam has me primed to look for Yiddish (which has all the best words, IMHO). But where is Bernie??? He has been thirsting for this word for years! He is going to feel oysgeshpart.
VERKLEMPT – THORAX?!
Oy vey. 🙄
Never heard of Verklempt… I went with a 3. Overtrample exhort trek